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bug#49844: Highlight non-selected minibuffer prompt
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#49844: Highlight non-selected minibuffer prompt |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:53:46 +0300 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:32:19 +0300
> Cc: 49844@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Can't we just put it in minibuffer.el? (But then there should probably
> > be a user option to switch it on/off.)
>
> Ironically, minibuffer.el is intended for code that deals with
> completions. Its first line is
>
> ;;; minibuffer.el --- Minibuffer completion functions
That's not carved in stone, though. We could change that heading
accordingly, and start adding stuff to minibuffer.el that doesn't
necessarily deal with completion.
> But most code that deals with the minibuffer
> is somewhere in the middle of simple.el.
Which is somewhat sub-optimal, I think.
> Maybe it would make sense to create a new file with the name e.g.
> minibuf-x.el as a mixed bag of tiny minibuffer features?
I don't think a new file is justified at this time.